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Dr Kate Simpson

  • Lecturer in Information Studies (Digital Humanities) (Information Studies)

Biography

Kate is Programme Convenor for the MSc in Digital Humanities situated within Information Studies. She was previously Lecturer in Digital Humanities at the Digital Humanities Institute at the University of Sheffield. Kate was a Fellow at the Institute of Advanced Studies in the Humanities at Edinburgh University and a Lecturer in English and Film at Edinburgh Napier University. She is the expert Curatorial Advisor at, and Trustee of, the David Livingstone Birthplace Trust.

Kate’s research interests are in: digital cultural creation and curation; 19th century European travel in, and writing on, Sub-Saharan Africa and India; postcolonial fiction and film; and digital societies. Her recent research explores ways to tell stories about the people involved in nineteenth century British travel in southern Africa. Stories whose foundation is often an object and not a text, to tell stories separate from previous histories, or narratives.

Kate’s current book project entitled The Poetics of Objects in Museum Collections: Belongings and Belonging (Palgrave late 2026) engages with what have come to be “British artefacts”, to explore the opposing representations of cultural moments as they are presented in entities held in British museums. To understand these belongings, as for example in the case of the lip ring belonging to a Bantu woman, is to view these belongings as communicating the feelings, beliefs, desire, culture and aspirations of a person.

Publications

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2026

O’Hara, Emily, Fringi, Evangelia ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0008-9642-660X and Simpson, Kathryn ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6883-4146 (2026) Creating an Effective Methodology for End-User Engagement in AI Auditing. In: 24th UK Workshop on Computational Intelligence (UKCI 2025), Edinburgh, UK, 3-5 September 2025, pp. 256-262. ISBN 9783032079374 (doi: 10.1007/978-3-032-07938-1_22)

2024

Simpson, Kathryn ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6883-4146 (2024) Technologies of recovery and discovery: the poetics of “artefacts”. Artl@s Bulletin, 13(1), pp. 20-36.

2022

Gow, Ann ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0172-6036, Gooding, Paul ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1044-509X, Bartliff, Zoe ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1644-3151, Kim, Yunhyong ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5400-0389 and Simpson, Kathryn ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6883-4146 (2022) Changing Curriculums for a Changing World? Living in Interesting Times: Digital Preservation Education, Pedagogy and Skills. 18th International Conference on Digital Preservation (iPres 2022), Glasgow, Scotland, 12-16 Sep 2022. (In Press)

Simpson, Kathryn ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6883-4146 and Ball, Heather (2022) Editing to avoid exclusion. Scholarly Editing, 39, (doi: 10.55520/62f8a3m1)

2020

Burke, Lois and Simpson, Kathryn ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6883-4146 (2020) Neither literature nor object: children’s writings in the digital public realm. Magazén, 1(2), pp. 249-270. (doi: 10.30687/mag/2724-3923/2020/02/005)

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Number of items: 5.

Articles

Simpson, Kathryn ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6883-4146 (2024) Technologies of recovery and discovery: the poetics of “artefacts”. Artl@s Bulletin, 13(1), pp. 20-36.

Simpson, Kathryn ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6883-4146 and Ball, Heather (2022) Editing to avoid exclusion. Scholarly Editing, 39, (doi: 10.55520/62f8a3m1)

Burke, Lois and Simpson, Kathryn ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6883-4146 (2020) Neither literature nor object: children’s writings in the digital public realm. Magazén, 1(2), pp. 249-270. (doi: 10.30687/mag/2724-3923/2020/02/005)

Conference or Workshop Item

Gow, Ann ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0172-6036, Gooding, Paul ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1044-509X, Bartliff, Zoe ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1644-3151, Kim, Yunhyong ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5400-0389 and Simpson, Kathryn ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6883-4146 (2022) Changing Curriculums for a Changing World? Living in Interesting Times: Digital Preservation Education, Pedagogy and Skills. 18th International Conference on Digital Preservation (iPres 2022), Glasgow, Scotland, 12-16 Sep 2022. (In Press)

Conference Proceedings

O’Hara, Emily, Fringi, Evangelia ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0008-9642-660X and Simpson, Kathryn ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6883-4146 (2026) Creating an Effective Methodology for End-User Engagement in AI Auditing. In: 24th UK Workshop on Computational Intelligence (UKCI 2025), Edinburgh, UK, 3-5 September 2025, pp. 256-262. ISBN 9783032079374 (doi: 10.1007/978-3-032-07938-1_22)

This list was generated on Sun Jul 12 20:03:57 2026 BST.

Professional activities & recognition

Research fellowships

  • 2018 - 2019: IASH postdoctoral Fellow
  • 2023 - 2023: Royal Geographical Society -Wiley Digital Fellow

Editorial boards

  • 2016: Gitanjali & Beyond

Professional & learned societies

  • 2024: Associate Fellow, Royal Historical Society
  • 2020: Member, European Association of Digital Humanities
  • 2018: Associate, Scottish Centre for Victorian and Neo-Victorian Studies
  • 2022: Member, British Association of Victorian Studies

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